So, Neopets finally disabled glowing and shadowed fonts on the neoboards...

[conuly]

Because that stuff is only visible in IE, and a lot of people would have white font surrounded by glowing stuff.

This led to a number of gems, and whining. Obviously, disabling something that only works in one browser is unfair to everybody, because "most" people use IE (most people I know don't, but they're too smart for the neoboards anyway... even if you know nothing of neopets, know this).

And, EoS, post your gem. Post it, post it! The one about how IE can be downloaded for free, and since kids are so tech savvy, they should be able to download it, so there's no reason for them to use anything that doesn't work (by working, she clearly means "show ugly fonts", because shadowed and glowing fonts ARE ugly).

Comments

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. That clarifies things a LOT. I was especially stuck on the "hat ur prob" part, among other things... apparently an already indecipherable style of writing was made even more indecipherable by unnoticed and uncorrected typos.

And that was hard to read with English as my first language! I can only imagine how bad it must be for those who speak English as a second language... >_